Functional Foods

Healthy Ingredients for Functional Food and Beverages

NutraGenesis markets safe, effective, GRAS affirmed functional ingredients to leading food and beverage companies wishing to capitalize on the emerging health and wellness products market.

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Our “better for you” ingredients possess substantiated functional food claims to help our customers increase the net value of their food or beverage products for only pennies per serving.
Our product development team is poised to assist food and beverage product marketers in creating healthier, flavorful, cost effective functional products.

We will work with you to provide customized prototypes that combine great flavor, texture, appearance, and shelf life with novel delivery systems for the most important product there is ……your product!



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Essentra® is the multi-patented, GRAS affirmed functional food ingredient which provides vitalizing, restorative nutrition for enhanced mind and body performance. Essentra®, a proprietary, standardized extract of the Ayurvedic botanical, Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), helps shield the body against the negative effects of stress via unique withanolide bioactive compounds that mimic the body’s own stress-reducing hormones.

The physiological wellness benefits afforded by Essentra® have been substantiated as functional food health claims and can be applied to many product categories including: Stress, Energy, Mental Cognition, Cardiovascular Function, Glucose Release, and Weight Management. Essentra’s efficacy in these claims areas is supported by a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled human clinical trial.

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Stress has become increasingly pervasive in most people’s lives, negatively affecting their health and well-being and promoting weight gain through stress-induced food cravings, overeating, and fat deposition. Numerous scientific studies have firmly established this link between stress and weight gain.

NutraGenesis introduces EssentraTrim™, the first and only, GRAS affirmed, multi-patented functional ingredient that is proven in double blind, placebo controlled clinical trials to reduce stress and lower levels of the weight inducing hormone, cortisol. By lowering cortisol levels in the body, EssentraTrim™ can help reduce stress-induced food cravings and overeating.

 

The physiological wellness benefits afforded by EssentraTrim™ have been substantiated as functional food health claims and can be applied to the healthy Weight Management and Blood Sugar Balance product categories.

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Sensara™ is the GRAS affirmed “beauty-from-within” functional ingredient that helps combat the internal and external causes of aging by providing multi-functional, restorative, skin-fortifying nutrition as well as increasing resistance to the skin-damaging effects of stress.
                                                                                               

Sensara™, the most advanced cosmeceutical yet developed, is designed to promote age-defying, skin enhancing results that your customers will see and feel.

Based on extensive scientific research on the ingredients in Sensara™, including human clinical trials and in vitro models, Sensara™ features potent, substantiated functional food health claims in the following product categories: Skin/Anti-Aging, Stress Reduction, Inflammatory Response, and multi-mechanism Antioxidant action.

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To meet a growing demand for health-promoting, superfruit antioxidants, NutraGenesis has served up Wellberry™, a new, patent-pending, branded, GRAS affirmed functional ingredient winner in the superfruit category for both the dietary supplement and food and beverage markets. Wellberry™ is a proprietary blend of a multi-patented Indian Gooseberry superfruit extract with adaptogenic properties and a patent-pending Vitamin C ingredient.

Wellberry™ features scientifically validated, high antioxidant levels, proven human health benefits, and substantiated structure/function and functional food health claims in a diverse range of product categories including: Antioxidant, Anti-Aging, Immune Support, Inflammatory Response, and Cardiovascular Health.*

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Because more and more Americans are finding that the foundation of good health is a strong and protective immune system, superior, scientifically proven immune support products are being embraced with increasing frequency by consumers.

NutraGenesis introduces OptiNutrin®, a clinically proven, immunomodulating functional food ingredient that is clearly “the” superior, GRAS affirmed immune support nutraceutical for numerous food and beverage product applications. 

Only OptiNutrin® provides marketers with safe, effective immune-enhancing nutrition and features substantiated functional food health claims in the areas of Immune Support and Cellular Defense.

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